The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-05
A VOTE ON THE SHORT CLOTHES
QUESTION
Taken at a Theater Results In q
Majority Of 1882 in Total Of
21l4 Votes
FOR COSTUMES THAT NECESSI-
TATE THE PINNING
OF Bouquets TO the Hips-The New
Southern Drama Oily pOcrite" 10
be Produced FOndsy.

be a 20 with such company. Eben
Plympton, Frederick de Belleville,
Henry Lee, Genevieve Lytton and
May Irwin were some OF the well
known members.
II a strong cast really does carry a
play on to success, the new drama,
eHypocrite, which is to be launched
at the Fourteenth Street Theater
next Monday, should be go under
any circumstances.
That very shrewd manager, Mr..
|. Charles Il. Locke, finding that the
ministry ballet ADJ was played out
in St. Louis, got the audience to vote
pro or con on the short clothes ques-
ton. The gauze and spangle ticket
was elected by majority OF 1872 IN
a total Of Ola votes.
Mr.. A. M. Palmer's company start
for Chicago on Friday afternoon at 8
o'clock, in a special train attached to
the New York Central fast mail.
There is more money to be made,
say the managers, out OF successful
play writing than in backing a
"short" horse who gets there first.
The chorus girl is in despair.
The thermometer goes up, her
friends talk about taking off their
winter underwear, and the poor lit
tie chorister plaintively cries out,
"what shall do to keep cool, have
nothing 10 take off.
Talking of the chorus fairy sug-
gests the latest fad. "The Choristers
Protective Association which pro-
poses for next season a graduated
scale OF prices to the comic opera
managers. Vocal qualities appear
way down on the list and the terms
per week are arranged on the acct.
dent insurance basis, the more OF
your anatomy you lose, or give away,
the mere you get. =,
On June 18th "Harbor Lights"
will have run 500 consecutive times
at the London Adelphi.
Mr.. Wilson Barrett is once more
on his native heath, telling Of his
wonderful success in this country
and trying to make his ledger balance.
He starts shortly on provincial
tour, aad in the autumn will appear
in London in . new drama. Mr..
George II. Sims, Of ",Ostler Joe"
fame, is. manufacturing it for him.
Here's clever wags account of a
London manager ordering new
melodra ma. "A FIVE act melodrama
must not be original in any way.
Five powerful climaxes, at EGO a
pieoe-that's f10o. Twelve stirring
situations, at--what's the market
price for situations2 FL pun temp
Well, that's t66; about 1000 words
. of comedy, that'll be ESQ more, say
the whole at Zoo, bizuess' inolud-
ed, the piece published at a el00O,
with l2A per cent. of the gross.
Done, only want two williams and
han heiress."
The latest in musical way is a
Steinway grand with the case de-
signed by l.. Alma l adema, the cele-
brated artist, and painted By Il. j.
Poyntsr, also an "R, A" The work
has been done in London, but it is
going to "the States" all the same.
Miss Cora Tanner, the heroine Of
"Alone in London" has come out in
boys garb AMI looks. monstrously
we'll.
Adonis Dixey is going to "close up
the show aud take a holiday"
Mr.. Amberg's pretty Hungarian
star, Nine. Teimer: Modjeska, is the
second wife of the celebrated TRACE
dieune's FIRST husband. How much
arithmetic it does take when one
wants to talk about theatrical matri-
mony.
Rumor has it that Mrs. James
Brown Potter is to have three sheet
posters with Mr.. Harry Miner in uni
form, on the top sheet and three
feathers and "Ich diem" Endorsement
at the bottom. That's the way re
publican push overtops royal patron
age.
Full two hundred creatures" i
would be unfair to the rest OF the SCI
TO call them women, waited in tn,
slums Of Sixth avenue to see Mr.
"Curly" Bellew come out Of tn,
stage door at Days, after the Satur
day matinee.
"Travers House" which Thoma
Il. MeDonouVh is preparing to pro
duce at Niblo's, June Goth, is de
scribed MS "kid glove" drama. TIL,
cast will include Miss Belgrade, Ad
Glade Stanhops, frankie Mcclellan
Forrest Robinson, j. 7. Sullivan ant
others.
The Haulons will give "Fantas
mt" new production next season
-Four property men have been a
work for two months on new effects
tricks, etc. All the scenery and COS
tunes will also be new, aud nun
Der of wonderful specialties will b
added.
The Haulons' lie Voyage Q
Suisse Company that comes to tn
United States next season is TIL
same that has been playing !
France, Germany, Austria, Spai
and ENGLAND, In every countl
visited by them they have played Il
piece in the language of the native
A new theater is being built
New Iberia, La, ten miles from j,
seph Jefierson's plantation. 1t wi
be opened next fall with the "Sha,
ovs OF a Great City" This play
now owned and managed by Charl
and Thomas Jefferson, who ha,
purchased l.. r. Shewelps interet
Bessie Cleveland, who is singh
in "lolauthe, at the Standard The
ter, is an unusually attractive your
lady, and will be heard from befo
she is many years older. She ha,
good voice, fine figure and eyes, al
may safely be called a beauty. Mi
Cleveland is a Chicsgo girl.
Miss Annie Pixley closes her e
ragement at the Union Square The
Ter Saturday night. The haudsoI
coincidence came to that house
two weeks and remains Ska pre-
sure indication of her popularity
New York. THE Deacou's Dauu
ter" has drawn large audiences ir,
the start.
called Lights and Shadows of N